Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. A home isn't just four walls, a roof,

and a place to hang your hat. It's a symbol. It holds the meaning of all your successes and failures.

Or at least it can if your home is the center of a literary fiction novel about a crumbling family

dynasty adrift

without its patriarch. Angela Tomaski is on the pod today talking about her debut novel,

The Infamous Gilbert's. It's about an old English mansion on the precipice of being sold

and the decaying objects within it. Tomaski's been living without her own father for years now.

And in this interview with Emperor Scott Simon, she talks about how this book was a 20-year

process in sorting her feelings out and how she feels now that it's out there.

That's coming up.

President Trump says he wants to make America skilled again.

But trades women worry that his crackdown on DEI will undo decades of progress.

You cannot look at the workforce of the construction trades and say they've taken DEI too far.

This weekend on the Sunday story, what role is there for women in the skilled trades Renaissance?

Listen now to the Sunday story on the Up First

podcast from NPR. Thorn Walk House is a mighty English mansion of the Winford Gilbert family.

That has been sold and will be turned into a hotel. So there is a last tour of the objects

inside and around the decaying Gothic building, the empty bed,

a bump in the lawn, the shadow of the taxidermied moose head. What will become of them and the

stories they tell about the people who once lived there? The infamous Gilberts is Angela

Tomoski's debut novel. She has held a variety of jobs, which we will ask her about.

She joins us now from the studios of the BBC in London. Thanks so much for being with us.

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